Just curious on how quickly former CVX EE's have found new jobs/careers since layoffs. I know a few who got laid off in June 2016 that are still having trouble finding work.
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Don’t judge, tdmc. Everyone’s choices are their own.
I have friends who have job hopped a bit over their careers and they took these layoffs in stride. All found new jobs in a few months. Others semi retired and took jobs they love for less salary in places they plan to retire. This took a bit longer to work out, like six months. The long term chevroids who never worked elsewhere and won't accept a job for less total pay and benefits as their CVX job are still jobless and depressed. I'm not sure they have much hope of getting a job or keeping one as they have a terrible attitude.
I know what you mean -exwt. I applied for lots of jobs and got several offers. I turned each of them down because the pay and benefits were not enough to merit my time. I was at a point where I could retire, so called it quits and decided to enjoy life instead.
Took a contract job after 6 month which paid about a third of what I was making. Turned permanent after another 3 months.
Now making about 65% of what I was making. No 491k, pension or 9/80.
It’s a small company and I enjoy the work but I can’t afford to work for that kind of money as I am going to loose out over the remaining 15 years I have left before retirement.
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"have lost there job" is what one poster below stated. And you guys wonder why you can't find new employment.
There's a lot of angry people on here. Don't you realise that you agree to work for a company and they agree to pay you and that's it. The company isn't obliged to look after you until the day you decide to retire. If conditions change, sometimes they have to let you go. That's how it is with 'laissez-faire' . If you don't subscribe to that then go to a socialist country.
9olo. I'll give you a call tomorrow to discuss.
@8pxi, There’s no easy way to identify by name the people who post on this site, but it’s not too difficult to know which IP addresses post here repeatedly.
Oh if only we could the identities of everyone who has posted here. Now that would be truly funny.
I resigned from the company to take a job at a smaller operator. Day and night difference.
Gotta love the maturity and ego of some of these commenters.
Right on, 6oth.
Apparently -6oth only wants to hear from people worse off than him. Sorry your station in life is so low, but so is life. Some have it better and some worse. You won't hear me resenting the life JW will soon to be living in retirement.
6oth - You need to read your own post and apply it to yourself. Your contribution to the topic was ????
6hmu, If that is your situation, why would you be posting and gloating about it on a layoffs site, to rub it in? These guys here are laid off and looking for work and need help & tips. There are plenty of sites online for you to reach out to other retirees to brag and gloat about your self-perceived success. Blurting it out to a group who are obviously struggling does not do anything for them and simply proves that you want to gloat to an audience where you apparently feel superior. Go to early-retirement.org or a similar site and take your extremely low rung on the ladder over there where they will keep you in your place as a nobody. Nothing to see here. Thanks.
I'm retired and don't need to be actively looking for work, thank God. I'm doing fine. Not living the jet-setter lifestyle, but then, I never cared for wanting to live that way. I enjoy a peaceful lifestyle, close to home and the wife. Kids all grown up and successful in their own right. Wife and I travel now and then, discover new places and return to our comfortable retirement home in the hill country of Austin, TX. We're in great health and take life with pleasure day by day. Retirement is finally here for us. May someday retirement life come as welcomed to all of you out there.
People in this business would stab their own grandmothers if they knew they would get away with it.
@5fqg, the secret the deadwood supervisors and managers use to keep their jobs is that they hide under the pile of expendable subordinate employees. Next time, Chevron needs to turn the woodpile and grab these most useless bottom dwelling grub worms.
Former CVX employees are competing for limited jobs with the thousands of other former professionals from other oil companies. So many posters talk about laid off people being deadwood and low performers. If that is the case, then why would Chevron hire people like that? What about all of the deadwood supervisors and managers who still have their jobs?
I'm hoping to sign on as a left-handed relief pitcher for the Giants next season. If that doesn't work out I will settle for playing on the PGA Tour.
Why do you need to know what others are up to. It looks like you still have a job OP so what is your interest about others. Doesn't make any logical sense.
Not an EE (FE) but picked up a part time consulting position, which I like. Hourly pay is OK, not the benefits, though and much lower annually because of part-time. It's a great way to ease into retirement. I only wish that this was done and offered more commonly for older folks who want to work but would like to transition gradually out of the corporate or industrial rat-race.. It seems like you are lucky if you can find a part time job and I don't mean those Walmart jobs or those at places who just don't want to pay benefits. That's a entire separate category.
Hard to find new job for experienced hires. Companies would rather hire new grads or foreign workers from developing countries. Sad truth.
1ixz. You prove there is life after Chevron. I have seen several payoffs over the years and many good people let go. After a period many of those said being paid off turned out to be good for them, it changed the direction of their life and opened new avenues of opportunity to them. Good luck to you..
Got ROM'd at 60. Had another job at equal pay in 4 months. Benefits much less. Job is challenging and satisfying. Results oriented company. Work gets done on budget and on schedule or else. Learned a lot.
In your dreams. They won't get better you're on the scrap heap and going nowhere.
After many searches and several interviews, I finally took a job that paid only half what I earned at Chevron. My work hours were similar, but the benefits weren't there. My commute distance was far and I had to pay for parking. After looking for work for a year and within 9 months of starting my first job after being laid off from my 27-year career at Chevron, I couldn't take it anymore. I quit working for that company and decided to look after myself. I risked a small fortune in starting a business from my home. It's doing fairly well now after a year of building up a fixed client base and occasional repeat business from other clients. It more than pays the bills and gives me the freedom I want. With time, I know the business will continue to grow and things will get better.
After getting ROM-ed, I worked temporary contract jobs for 2 year, at the equivalent of about 50% of my Chevron "take home" pay.
I'm now a full time contractor in the Middle East, with about 20% more "take home" pay (factoring in the Foreign Earned Income tax exemption). However, living in the Middle East has its problems, and I have the risk of being replaced by a local (however unqualified that person might be) at any time.
Trying to get back to the USA for the last 6 months, without any luck.
Having been blessed with a large physical attribute I am now making movies and a big pile of cash.
I started a small construction and home remodeling business instead of continuing to pound the pavement after several interviews with companies not willing to pay me my worth. I took a chance and came out lucky. Started with myself and two talented young employees. Two years later, my company has 6 permanent craftsmen and I'm now leasing a small warehouse and shop building. I'm personally earning more after taxes than what Chevron paid me in gross salary.
if your goal is to maintain the same pay scale and work in O&G, it's going to be rough. If you are willing to take a pay cut and look outside of O&G, there are plenty of jobs.
I was hired within 30 days outside of O&G with only a minor pay cut, I am now back to where I was before the layoffs.
Are you kidding me..... me and other who were laid off in early 2015 had been jobless. If you are laid off in June 2016 and still looking for job, welcome to the club.
If you are lucky to find some consultant job, the contract day rate is half as what it was in the normal time a few years ago. A friend of mine went to Congo and after a few days he arrived he came down with Malaria, poor guy.
Almost all the job advertised only ask for a few years experience, so prepare to wait for the oil price to come back in reasonable range for oil companies to hire..... this could be one or two or three more years to come. tighten your belt.
I had multiple interviews and offers but not as good as what I had at Chevron and declined the jobs. Eventually I took a job with less pay and benefits. Can't expect that things will be the same. It looks like there are jobs out there but it depends on how flexible a person is with the pay package and mobility. Good luck.